“I don’t want any of Kritz’s cum in my eye.Ask Keska if she can alter it a little.”
Zera blinked.“How did you know about that?”
“I can smell it; I can also hear it.He and Arcady go at it at every opportunity.The interaction contains the same scent as the implants all over Arcady.”
“I didn’t know you had scent skills as well.”She carefully handed over the vial.
Ival took it.“It is like Hemma’s tracking.Hiding is the other part.I can change the skin chemistry within certain boundaries, and I need to check scent to figure out what is currently riding on me.Could be energy, could be toxin.The sniffer knows.”
Torun took his com and showed it to Zera.
“Hemma looks very nice.”
“Not Hemma.This is Ival in Thorassen.”
Ival smiled and sniffed the contents of the vial.“Yeah, my family is coming after me, but Hemma has recently been in the public eye in Daycross, and that activated a lot of things.Anyone who was stupid and hadn’t seen Ival in the last twenty years might mistake one for the other.The name change isn’t remarkable.A lot of people think that all Uraddans are hiding or that they changed their names when they registered.The truth is that for some of us, the names were all we had.It was our call signs that we ditched.”
Ival looked at the monitor, and the last little light winked out.“Well, Hemma, as soon as Kritz gets in, you will be out of that tank.”
Hemma smiled and gestured from her face to Ival’s.”
“Oh, you didn’t know we looked alike.It never really came up.Well, down the hatch.”She drank the vial and grimaced.“Pumpkin spice?Good god.”
Zera laughed.“Khytten has been experimenting with flavours.”
“Tell her to start a new test batch.”
“I will mention that you are not a fan.Do you feel anything?”
“No, but my skin is covered in a paralytic that nothing touches unless it is for containment.”She returned to her seat and looked at her hands.“Nope.Nothing.”
Zera nodded and took out a second one.“She said if the first didn’t work, you needed to take this.Sorry about the flavour.”
Ival carefully took the second vial, sniffed, glared at it, and then she shot it back.A heat started inside her.“Something is happening.Oh, shit.This isn’t going to be good.”
She dropped to the ground, and when the first seizure hit, she started thrashing and hoped that she didn’t hit anything.
